São Paulo - São FranciscoSão Francisco

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    1. Index
    2. Process
    3. Interventions
    4. Projects
    5. Blocks
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  • São Paulo Calling - São Paulo Calling in São Francisco
    Posted on 01/31/2012by Lorenza Baroncelli

    If we describe the way in which politics and architecture have experienced the birth, growth and explosion of the phenomenon of informal settlements (favelas, slums, bidonville, townships), if we reconstruct this history, we should

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  • Transcending urbanization
    Posted on 02/29/2012by Josefina Ocanto

    There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the relationship that the Municipal Housing Secretariat has been constructing with leaders of community organizations in São Francisco. The São Paulo Calling - Jornada da Habitação ...

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  • São Paulo Calling
    Posted on 02/29/2012by Felinto Carlos Fonseca da Cunha

    On that January morning I woke up, got into my car and once again drove to the Eastern part of the city.

    It was a sunny Saturday morning and the traffic was calm. So, ...

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  • The vanguard of urban planning or the experience of struggle
    Posted on 02/29/2012by Fabienne Hoelzel

    On a beautiful and warm Sunday morning in January, during the first weekend of the Sao Paulo Calling-project, Anna Dieztsch from DBBA, Joseph Grima from Abitare and me as the SEHAB urban planning coordinator came ...

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  • São Francisco Jornada
    Posted on 01/31/2012by Francesco Careri

    "Hospital! Hospital! "And" Labyrinth! Labyrinth! "These are two slogans that guide us. They are words shouted joyfully by children leading a lenghty parade of people in the ascents and declines of Sao Francisco, dressed in ...

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  • Metropoliz in São Francisco: The visible and the invisible necessary city
    Posted on 03/12/2012by Azzurra Muzzonigro

    Q: Who are you and what did you bring to the São Paulo Calling exhibition?

    A: I am an architect and part of the Laboratorio Arti Civiche (LAC), (http://www.articiviche.net), an interdisciplinary ...

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São Paulo - São Francisco

  1. Covering an area of intervention about 1,800,000 m², São Francisco is the third biggest slum in the city. In the São Mateus region (East side), the settlement dates from 1992, with about 8 million households, and it has approximately 30 thousand inhabitants according to the Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE-2010).

    By 2020, urbanization is expected to include road improvements, expansion of public transportation, elimination of risk areas, creation of a commercial center, construction of housing units and community ...

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